The conservative ethos distilled.

[Swede]

[Freddie]

1. This

Nancy Reagan was opposed to stem cell research until Ronnie got Alzheimer’s.
Dick Cheney was against gay rights until his daughter came out.
Countless examples of “pro life” women until they discovered the fetus they were carrying had no brain.
MTG was opposed to the ACA until she realized that the “big beautiful bill” was going to affect her family.
It ONLY matters when it affects them.

[RandomNumbers]

2. And if they get through it

(whatever "it" is), often they shrug it off as a problem and will say things like, hey I got through it so anyone else can.

edit to add: and often this comes with obliviousness to white male privilege, or at least white privilege.

[ck4829]

3. K&R

[lastlib]

4. What I found conservatives want to conserve:

1) Wealth for the wealthy;
2) Power for the powerful;
3) Comfort for the comfortable;
4) Poverty for the poor;
5) Weakness for the weak;
6) Affliction for the afflicted.

Along with the ethos you noted, that pretty well sums it up.

[sop]

5. John Kenneth Galbraith: "The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy;

that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."

[mr715]

6. Meghan McCain, the greatest mind of our generation.

Hey, do you think Meghan McCain and Erika Kirk are actually just 3 Nick Fuentes in a prom dress pretending to be an adult?

[usonian]

7. Wilhoit's law.

“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” That line—written by Frank Wilhoit—has become a popular aphorism to sum up the hypocrisy and moral bankruptcy of the modern Republican Party.

https://pylimitics.net/wilhoits-law/